Great Antiwar Song

So we make jokes back home,
and we lighten the mood,
but growing up my parents saw,
what sending a kid to fight can really do,
but now with the war I can tell they're a little shook up,
'cause just a few mothers sons will never really be enough,
not 'til half our names are etched out in the wall,
and the other half ruined from the things we saw.

Shameful Hinduism

ROMA, October 3, 2008 – In a little over a month, the victims of the wave of anti-Christian violence that began on August 24 in India have risen to 60. To these must be added more than 18,000 wounded, 178 churches destroyed, more than 4600 homes burned, and 13 schools and social centers devastated. At least 50,000 Christians have fled from their villages seeking shelter in refugee camps and in the forest.

On Hinduism

Hinduism: a peace loving religion, or a hateful movement of ignorant polytheistic pagans? You be the judge. This kind of thing is going on everyday in India now.

Unexpected Meditation VII

Between two armies is a dangerous place to graze your flock.

In the Long Run . . .

The Progressive Peacenik Myth

"Practically speaking, what is the difference?" Exactly: what is the difference?
This might help explain my frustration.

It has been said before: too many of us are political orphans.